Cover story
The River Keeps Its Receipts
Along a drought-exposed riverbed, shop ledgers, bottle caps, and vanished street plans surface together. A field essay about civic memory and what infrastructure tries to forget.
Low Water
About Margin
Margin is an independent quarterly journal about overlooked places: the riverbed, the night route, the unfinished floor, the empty pool.
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Also in this issue
Three more stories
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Night Bus Atlas
Tomás Iriarte
The unofficial geography drawn by cleaners, nurses, bakers, and drivers while a city’s daytime map is asleep.
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Concrete Orchards
Meera Das
Residents tend fruit trees in the unfinished floors of a financial district, negotiating shade, ownership, and the patience of roots.
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A Language for Empty Pools
Hana Mori
Photographs and short notes from public baths retired after the last swimmer, where tile patterns keep directing bodies that no longer arrive.
Archive Issues 11–13
- Issue 13After the Last Train
- Issue 12Borrowed Ground
- Issue 11The Weather Indoors
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